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For one-semester, undergraduate/graduate introductory computer networking courses in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, CIS, MIS, and Business Departments.

Written by a best-selling author and leading computer networking authority, this text builds a comprehensive picture of the technologies behind Internet applications. Ideal for those with little or no background in the subject, the book answers the basic question “how do computer networks and Internets operate?” in the broadest sense and includes an early optional introduction to network programming and applications. The text provides a comprehensive, self-contained tour through all of networking from the lowest levels of data transmission and wiring to the highest levels of application software, explaining how underlying technologies provide services and how Internet applications use those services. At each level, it shows how the facilities and services provided by lower levels are used and extended in the next level. For instructors who want to emphasize Internet technologies and applications, the book provides substantial sections on Internetworking and Network Applications that can serve as a focus for a course. An accompanying multimedia CD-ROM and Website provide opportunities for a variety of hands-on experiences.

• NEW - An integrated approach to learning—Combines the best of top-down networking with the best of bottom-up networking.

  • Exposes students to applications and gets them programming early, while delivering the material in logical order.

• NEW - Updated and revised content throughout.

  • Supplies students with the most current information on networking and Internet technology.

• NEW - Added chapter on UDP: Datagram Transport Service —Chapter 24 explains UDP and shows the package format.

  • Introduces students to an important topic for use with multicasting, message systems, and Internet telephony.

• NEW - Added chapter on Network Address Translation —Chapter 26 explains the major variants of NAT including NAPT and shows how NAT works.

  • Explores a technology that allows multiple computers to share a single IP address—an important component of both residential and small business networks.

• NEW - Added chapter on IP Telephony—Chapter 33 covers the technology that allows voice telephone communication over the Internet.

  • Explains the protocols used for IP telephony, and discusses the problem of interfacing between an IP telephone system and the current public switched telephone network.

• Broad and substantial coverage.

  • Provides students with in-depth discussions of topics such as: local and wide area networks, local access technologies such as ADSL and cable modems, dynamic web document technologies, network management, socket programming, address binding, IPv6, error handling with ICMP, and Virtual Private Networks.

• Focus on concepts and principles.

  • Enables students to apply the principles they learn to new technologies in this evolving field where technologies may become obsolete in a few years.

• Flexible organization—Chapters can be covered in a variety of orders after students have completed Parts I and II.

  • Accommodates a wide variety of instructor/student/course needs and preferences.

• CD-ROM included with every text—Features keyword search mechanism and links to the Website, which is updated continuously.

  • Supplies students with animated figures that help clarify concepts, over 200 photos of network wiring and equipment, and data files that can be used as input to student projects and figures from the text. Provides packet traces so that students without access to networking facilities can write programs that read a trace and process packets as if they have been captured from the network.

• Online help for instructors and students—Two electronic mailing lists available for the text. General information can be obtained from netbook@cs.purdue.edu. Discussions about teaching the material occur on netbook-inst@cs.purdue.edu. To join either list, send an e-mail message to the list name -request with a body that consists of the word subscribe. Instructors are requested to establish a single local alias for all students at their site.

• Appendix 1: Glossary of Networking Terms and Abbreviations—Includes more than 80 newer entries.

  • Helps students master the new and sometimes confusing networking terminology, including acronyms and jargon. Definitions in the glossary have been written independently rather than being taken verbatim from the text in order to provide additional clarification.

• Excellent, optional internetworking with TCP/IP coverage.

  • Provides students with the most accessible presentation of fundamental networking/internet technology with a highly readable presentation.

• Highly accessible—Does not use sophisticated mathematics, defines concepts clearly with analogies and examples, uses examples and drawings to illustrate how the technology operates, states results of analysis without mathematical proofs, and does not assume a knowledge of operating systems.

  • Appropriate for a variety of student audiences, including those without backgrounds in networking.

• An integrated approach to learning—Combines the best of top-down networking with the best of bottom-up networking.

  • Exposes students to applications and gets them programming early, while delivering the material in logical order.

• Updated and revised content throughout.

  • Supplies students with the most current information on networking and Internet technology.

• Added chapter on UDP: Datagram Transport Service —Chapter 24 explains UDP and shows the package format.

  • Introduces students to an important topic for use with multicasting, message systems, and Internet telephony.

• Added chapter on Network Address Translation —Chapter 26 explains the major variants of NAT including NAPT and shows how NAT works.

  • Explores a technology that allows multiple computers to share a single IP address—an important component of both residential and small business networks.

• Added chapter on IP Telephony—Chapter 33 covers the technology that allows voice telephone communication over the Internet.

  • Explains the protocols used for IP telephony, and discusses the problem of interfacing between an IP telephone system and the current public switched telephone network.

I. USING AND BUILDING INTERNET APPLICATIONS.

II. DATA TRANSMISSION.

III. PACKET TRANSMISSION.

IV. INTERNETWORKING.

V. NETWORK APPLICATIONS.

Networking--Intro  (Computer Science)
Computer Networks  [CORE TEXTS]   (Electrical and Computing Engineering)

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  Computer Networks and Internets, 5/E
  Comer
  ©2009 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 768 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0136061273 | ISBN-13: 9780136061274
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  Appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate courses in computer networking, the Internet, or Internet applications; students need no background in networking, operating systems, or advanced mathematics.

   

  Leading networking authority Douglas Comer presents a wide-ranging, self-contained tour of the concepts, principles, and technologies that enable today’s Internet to support applications ranging from web browsing to telephony and multimedia. This Fifth Edition has been thoroughly reorganized, revised, and updated: it includes extensive new coverage of topics ranging from wireless protocols to network performance, while reducing or eliminating coverage of older protocols and technologies. Comer begins by illuminating the applications and facilities offered by today’s Internet. Next, he systematically introduces the underlying network technologies and protocols that make them possible: low-level data communications; packet switching, LAN, and WAN technologies; and Internet protocols such as TCP, IP, UDP, and IPv6. With these concepts and technologies established, he introduces several of the most important contemporary issues faced by network implementers and managers, including quality of service, Internet telephony, multimedia, network security, and network management. Comer has carefully designed this book to support both top-down and bottom-up teaching approaches. Students need no background in operating systems, and no sophisticated math: Comer relies throughout on figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical proofs.

   

"I just could not put it down before I finished it. It was simply superb." — Lalit y. Raju, Regional Engineering College, India

"An excellent book for beginners and professionals alike. The coverage is comprehensive and up-to-date (including IP Telephony and NAT). The chapters are concise and easy to follow, a hallmark of Dr. Comer's writing style." -John Lin, Bell Labs

Douglas E. Comer is a professor at Purdue University, where he teaches popular computer networking courses. He consults for industry and teaches hundreds of professionals and diverse audiences around the world about the Internet at professional conferences and in onsite presentations. His series of books on networking and TCP/IP protocols receives high acclaim; his books are popular worldwide. One of the researchers who contributed to the formation of the Internet in the late 1970s and 1980s, he has served on the Internet Architecture Board, and is a Fellow of the ACM.

Best-selling author and leading computer networking authority Douglas Comer builds a comprehensive picture of the technologies that allow the Internet to provide application services such as web browsing and instant messaging. This edition includes new chapters on the use of Internet technology.

The book offers an incomparable tour that explains everything from Internet applications to the lowest levels of packet transmission. It shows how protocols are layered, and explains how a given layer provides services used by the next higher layer.

Revised and updated throughout, including:

• FAQ email list with answers to questions from a leading networking authority
• NEW—Chapter 24, User Datagram Protocol: Introduces an end-to-end datagram protocol and shows how to use it. Once considered insignificant, UDP forms the important basis for multicast and broadcast applications and new applications that transfer audio or video.
• NEW—Chapter 26, Network Address Translation (NAT): Explains how NAT technology overcomes a major limitation of the Internet by allowing multiple computers to share a single IP address, especially important for residential and small business installations.
• NEW—Chapter 33, IP Telephony: Discusses the most exciting new Internet application, transmitting telephone calls over the Internet (VoIP). The chapter explains competing standards for IP telephony, including protocols such as H.323, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), and MegacoIt also shows a sample SIP session.
• Includes a CD-ROM with animations, packet traces, more than 200 photos of networking equipment, code from the book and copies of protocol standards. A Web site with additional items including instructional materials is at http://netbook.cs.purdue.edu
• Accompanying lab manual, Hands-On Networking with Internet Technologies, Second Edition, offers an integrated package for teachers.

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Instructor's Resource CD-ROM (download only), 4/E
Droms & Comer
©2004 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Instock
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Interwrite Personal Response System
EduCue, Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2004 | Prentice Hall | Electronic Supplement | Instock
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ISBN-10: 0131434519 | ISBN-13: 9780131434516
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